Orna Shaughnessy

Visiting Instructor in Japanese

Contact 309-341-7519 oshaughn@knox.edu

General Interests
"My research interests stem from my fundamental interest in the intersection of literary aesthetics and cultural politics: these include the novel in a comparative context, Translation Studies, Urban Studies, interpretive communities and literary coteries, and popular culture."

Years at Knox: 2011 to present

Education
Ph.D. candidate, University at California, Berkeley.
M.A., Japanese Literature, 2006, University of California, Berkeley.
B.A., English, 1996, University of California, Davis.

Teaching Interests
Japanese language and literature

Selected Professional Accomplishments

Honors/Grants
Townsend Fellowship, Graduate Fellow. Highly competitive fellowship sponsoring a year-long collaborative conversation amongst Fellows - faculty and graduate students - working in different disciplines in the humanities. Administered by UC Berkeley's Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, 2010-2011.
U.C. Society of Fellows in the Humanities, member. Granted in conjunction with the Townsend Fellowship to cover tuition and fees for the 2010- 2011 academic year, 2010-2011.
Fulbright IIE Graduate Research Fellow.Conducted doctoral research at the Kokubungaku Kenkyû Shiryôkan (National Institute of Japanese Literature) in Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008.
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. Selected by the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and conferred by the GSI Teaching and Resource Center, U.C. Berkeley, 2005-2006.
Center for East Asian Studies Award, Stanford University, Summer 2003.
Foreign Language & Area Studies Award (FLAS), University of California, Berkeley 2001- 2002.

Presentations
"Rambling with Style: Exploring International Entrepots in Japanese Travel Narratives of the Late 19th Century," Spatial Imaginaries and Critical Geographies Across the Pacific, UC Santa Cruz, February 27, 2010.

"Strike! Representations of Crowds and Violence in the works of Kobayashi Takiji and other contemporary cultural productions," presented in absentia2008 Kobayashi Takiji Memorial Symposium at Oxford, Oxford University, England, September 2008.

"Noguchi Hiroshi's Proletarian Aesthetics" on panel "Japanese Proletarian Literature," Association for Asian Studies, Boston Massachusetts, March 2007.

Professional Service
Graduate student representative to the Tompkins Fellowship Committee, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, U.C. Berkeley, 2009-2010.

Graduate student Japanese Curriculum Committee representative, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, U.C. Berkeley, 2005-2006.

Graduate student representative to the general faculty meetings of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2004-2005.

Delegate to the U.C. Berkeley Graduate Assembly representing the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2003-2004.

Campus & Community Involvement
Member, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
Member, Association of Asian Studies (AAS).
Member, Association for Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS).
Member, Early Modern Japan Network, a subgroup of AAS.
Member, Kanagaki Robun kenkyûkai, hosted by the Kokubungaku kenkyû shiryôkan.
Member, Modern Language Association (MLA).
Member, Premodern Japanese Studies (PMJS).